“All things are inherently contradictory,” wrote the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Around 200 years later, some people in the EU Environment Committee have also adopted the principle of dialectics. On Wednesday, CDU MEP Oliver Schenk had to resort to almost Hegelian rhetorical convolutions to explain whether or not he approved of the trilogue agreement […]
At exactly 10:09 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the “City of Hamburg” rolled into Vienna’s main station. The new night train, ceremonially christened a day earlier by Hamburg’s mayor Peter Tschentscher and his wife Eva-Maria, now connects the Hanseatic city with the Austrian capital once daily. With this service, Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and Deutsche Bahn […]
Texting is dangerous. Not only for secret lovers, but also for politicians and car bosses. The chat between the then FDP leader and 911 owner Christian Lindner on his work cell phone as Federal Minister of Finance and Porsche CEO Oliver Blume from the summer of 2022 is now public following a successful lawsuit by […]
Olga Tokarczuk: House of Day, House of NightA small town in Silesia near the Czech border, whose identity has changed a lot throughout history: Today Nowa Ruda is Polish, before that, it was German, before that Czech, once Austro-Hungarian. In this novel, the author – awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019 – retells […]
The CDU has often been at odds with Ursula von der Leyen. However, during her appearance at the CDU federal party conference on Wednesday, the EU Commission President and EPP lead candidate for the European elections finally got the delegates behind her. And she did so with harsh criticism of the AfD: “The AfD is […]
I love it, I love it not: Somewhere on this planet, Elon Musk is potentially plucking daisies, contemplating how his platform, formerly known as Twitter and now named “X”, should navigate its future with the EU.While the impulsive entrepreneur currently has other concerns due to unexpectedly poor quarterly results and a declining Tesla stock value, […]
There was a time when new social networks were either applauded or slated. But Threads, Meta’s new platform, seems to be neither – now that it has been made available in the EU after a few adjustments. The Twitter, sorry, X alternative is just the umpteenth alternative to the original, which continues to suffer under […]
For the AfD, the EU is “an undemocratic and incapable-of-reform construct”. For the new alliance led by Sahra Wagenknecht, “the European integration process is at a standstill”. Both parties, therefore, enter the upcoming European election campaign with plenty of EU-critical messages.How much do such messages resonate with the German electorate? Not too much, according to […]
He has only just been elected to the European Parliament and Fidias Panayiotou already sees himself as the “most democratic politician”. The social media phenomenon from Cyprus has over 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube. Panayiotou became famous there with clips in which he lives in an airport for seven days without money, tries out dangerous […]
It is only about two hours by ferry from Estonia’s capital Tallinn to Helsinki in Finland. The two countries are also close in terms of language, and they share a great passion: saunas.Thus it was only logical that the heads of government of the two countries started their first meeting by taking a sweat together. […]